Device for straightening bent or irregular axle housings



July 24, 1923. 1 41625955 D. CAMP DEVICE FOR STRAIGHTENING- BENT OR IRREGULAR AXLE HOUSINGS Filed March 6. 1922 TTORNEYS.

, the invention is not limited to the Patented July 24:, 1923.

; W n t DAVID came, or CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

DEVICE FOR STRAIGHTENING BENT OR IRREGULAR AXLE HOUSINGS.

Application filed March 6, 1922.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID CAMP, a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Cumberland, post-office at Newfield, in the county of Gloucester, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and use ful Device for Straightening Bent or 11'- regular Axle Housings, of which the lollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a device for straightening an axle housing or the axle that has become irregular or distorted by bending or otherwise, the same embodyinga beam that may be seated on and attached to a straight or regular member to exert a pull or draft on said ir regular portion of the housing so to re store the said portion to proper straigrhtness.

The invention consists inrenderinp; said fulcrum adjustable on said beam whereby the former may be set nearer to or further from the end of the irregular portion of the housing according to the extent of said portion or its bent or distorted shape so as to effectively straighten the housing.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing); but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood tl Lil spe details shown and described, as long; as they are within the spirit or scope ofthe. claims.

Figure 1 represents a partial side elevation and a partial vertical section of a device for straightening axle housings em bodying my invention.

Fig. 2 represents a top or plan view' thereof.

Fig. 3 represents atransverse vertical section on line 33 Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 represents a side elevation of a dc tached member.

Fig. 5 represents a bottom plan view of the member shown in Fig. 4.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Serial No. 541,294.

Referring to the drawings.

1 designates a portion or an axle housing that has been bent or become irregular or otherwise distorted. 2 designates a horizontally extending beam having there through at one end the vertically extending opening 3, and in the other end on the upper side thereof the recesses 4. Depending from said beam adjacent to the opening in the beam 2 is the fulcrum or strut 5 it being composed of a leg or prop having a i head. which is parallelwith and bears flat against the underside of the beam and has therein the bolts 7 which are on the exterior of said beam 2 and passed through said T-head and through the plate 8which latter rests upon the upperside of the beam, the threaded ends of said bolts having thereon the nuts 9. for tig'hteningsa-id plate and head to the beam, and so retaining them. and; consequently the fulcrum tightly in position on the beam, itbeing evident that when said nuts areloosened the fulcrum is adapted to be moved to the right or left on the beam for purposes of adjustment, as

will be hereinafter more fully referred to.

As stated the bolts 7 do not pass through the beam, but alonp,- the sides thereof, hence said barn is left solid. intact and strong, and as the bolts embrace the beam, the fulcrum 5 is held firmly on the beam and its head is prevented from being: twisted off therefrom in lateral direction. As the main portion of the body of the beam-is unpierced for the tightening bolts 7 said portion is not weakened so it iswell enabled to endure the severe strain to which it is subjected in use without liability to fracture or break during the straightening operation.

1O designates ananchorinn yoke which is adapted to straddle the straight or regular portion 11 ofthe housing and has the upper ends of its legs adapted to be connected "freely by the cross bolt 10 with the clevis 12 whose crown 13 is adaptedto be seated. in either of the recesses 4 of the beam and' thus sustaining the clevis on the beam and so suspending the yoke from the latterl 14L designates a bolt on the lower end of which is the eye or ring 15 which is adapted to be fitted over the irregular portion of the housing so as to take firm hold thereof,

bolt 14 and with it-the eye 15.

the upper portion of said body passing 7 again referred to.

The lower end of the fulcrum is concaved as at 17 so as to be seated movably but steadily on the upper side of the irregular portion of the housing and prevented from slipping laterally therefrom.

The operation is as follows The'yolre is placed around the straight or regular portion 11 of the housing and connected with the beam by the clevis- 12. The fulcrum 5 is seated on the housing adjacent to the irregular portion thereof and the eye 15 fitted over the end of the latter named portion. the beam being sustained by the fulcrum 5 on said portion 1 and I steadied by the yoke and clevis and the eye and bolton opposite ends thereof. The nut 16 is now rotated whereby it raises the The latter thus exerts an upper draft or pull on the bent portion of the housing while the fulcrum 5 preserves the position of the beam and also allows the irregular portion of the housing to be turned up from. the base of the fulcrum in a right line and so straightened to the required extent.

The nut 16 may now be loosened and the bolt 10 withdrawn when the parts of the device may be dis-assembled and removed from the housing.

h: Attention is drawn to the facttha't the fulcrum may be adjusted to the right and left accordingto the length of the irregudrawing up said portion may be succesma performed and straightening the same progresses.

,These ad ustments of the fulcrum are.

readily performed owing to the movable connection of said fulcrum and the plate 8 with. the beam by the bolts 7 and nuts 9, the latter, as evident, being tightened when said adjustments are accomplished.

. On the end of the portion 1 of-the housing is the device 18 for examining the interior of the-irregular portion of the housing "to watch the work of straightening, the

same consisting of the tubular piece 19 which is adapted to enter said portion and have the human eye applied to the outer end of the bore of the piece the effect of incense screwed to the end of the portion 1 of the housing and so removably retained thereon. The T-head of the fulcrum provides a long surface for firmly connecting the fulcrum with the beam and preventing the fulcrum which is subjected to considerable lateral strain from being wrenched from the beam. I

The plate-8 also forms enlarged bearings for the nuts 9 and assists in providing a strong connection for the fulcrum member with the beam."

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a straightening device of the character stated. a beam havingon opposite end portions respectively an anchor and a st 'aigg htening member, and an intermediate strut, one end of the latter being adapted to be straightened and the other end thereof being provided with a T-head adapted to be seated on said beam, said head having lateral extensions projected beyond theopposite sides of said beam, aplate adapted to be placed on said beam opposite to said head said plate having lateral extensions projected beyond the opposite sides of said beam and tightening bolts adapted to be passed through the extensions of said plate and head exterior of said beam.

2 In a device for straightening a bent or irregular portion of an axle housing, a b am having thereon means for connecting itwith the housing, a depending fulcrum member which is mounted niovably on said bean'i and adjustable thereon in the longi tudinal direction and provided with a T- head which i adapted to rest on said beam a pla e on the beam opposite to said "l -head;

and bolts in said head and plate passing therefrom on the exterior of said beam.

3.ln a device for straightening a bent or irregular portion of axle housing. a beam. means on the la ter for connecting it with the housing, a fulcrum member adjustably depending from said beam and having a T-head which is movable on said beam in the longitudinal direction thereof, and nutted bolts connected with said head and said beam for securing said.

fulcrum member in the position to which it is adjusted. said having thereon'a plate through which said bolts are adapted to pass and which form bearings for the nuts of said bolts. 7 I

- DAVID CAMP.

Witnesses:

CELIA Ross GRACE CAMr.

seated on the article to be" 

